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Emotional Intensity & SensitivityGIFTEDNESS has an emotional as well as intellectual component. Intellectual complexity goes hand in hand with emotional depth. So gifted people not only think differently from other people they also feel differently. Emotional intensity in gifted people is not a matter of feeling more than other people, it is a different way of experiencing the world: vivid, absorbing, penetrating, encompassing, complex, commanding... ... ...a way of being quiveringly alive. |
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Emotional IntensityEmotional intensity is positively correlated with intelligence and so the higher the intellectual level, the more emotionally intense a gifted person will be. Emotional intensity is expressed by the gifted through a wide range of feelings, attachments. compassion, heightened sense of responsibility and scrupulous self-examination. While these are normal for gifted people and appear very early in gifted children, they are often mistaken for emotional immaturity rather than as evidence of a rich inner life. |
CharacteristicsThe characteristics of gifted emotional intensity include…
Remember, these are normal for gifted.
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